Word: exotica
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Atom Egoyan is talking about his new film, "Exotica," while wrestling with a messy club sandwich at the Four Seasons Hotel (Please see review, right.) The film's distributor is working Egoyan very hard: six cities in seven days. The promotional tour involves lunching with journalists, discussing his work at screenings, like the one at the Harvard Film Archive on February 21st, and producing an answer when asked whether he plays the guitar professionally or for his own enjoyment...
...best technique we at Dartboard witnessed was the combination of exotica. One confident undergrad revealed to an investment bank that he had devoted his academic career to swap derivatives, which he believed complemented his other talent: fluent Mandarin Chinese...
European history, Szporluk says, is animportant prerequisite to understanding lessfrequently studied areas such as his ownspecialty, areas he calls "exotica...
This is a specific statement about a concrete emotion -- Walcott rarely generalizes or resorts to abstractions -- and yet it echoes well beyond its given point of utterance. At their most intense, Walcott's 10 volumes of poetry convey all the strangeness and exotica of island life -- of poor, forgotten people surrounded by water on a margin of the earth -- and make the whole spectacle as familiar as the view across the street...
Miller's passion for untamed flavor began in his native Massachusetts, where Mexican and Indian friends of his French-Canadian family introduced him to the spicy exotica of non-European cooking. Travels in Latin America, Africa and Asia prompted him to experiment with ethnic accents, first as an assistant chef for nouvelle California guru Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and later in the same city at his own Fourth Street Grill, where he was one of the first chefs in the country to use mesquite wood for grilling...